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Re: Access Keys

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From: glen walker
Date: Mar 26, 2018 11:10AM

Do you need to implement the accesskey attribute in order to be
accessible? No.

However, I really like it when there are access keys for common
functionality. The problem is that they're not normally discoverable. For
example, on wikipedia, the search field that's in the upper right (when
you're viewing a wiki page), has an accesskey='F', but you'd never know it
unless you look at the code. It lets me quickly get to that field no
matter where I am on the page, which I love, but again, you probably don't
know it's there.


On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Kakarla Meharoon <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> *Is it access keys are really necessary to implement?*
> > > > >